National Coalition Party

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Finland

Its former coalition partner, the National Coalition Party (NCP), won the election by capturing 44 seats (a drop of six seats from the 2007 election) but faced the prospect of coalition rule with one of the main opposition parties—either the Social Democrats, who finished second with 42 seats, or the…

Niinistö

…a member of the conservative National Coalition Party (NCP). He served in parliament from 1987 to 2003 and was the chairman of the NCP from 1994 to 2001. In 1995 his wife of some 20 years was killed in an automobile crash, leaving Niinistö the single parent of two sons,…

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